{"id":10916,"date":"2016-07-03T23:30:35","date_gmt":"2016-07-03T23:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/clone.arsacs.com\/phd-student-does-her-thesis-on-arsacs\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T18:08:27","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T22:08:27","slug":"phd-student-does-her-thesis-on-arsacs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arsacs.com\/fr\/phd-student-does-her-thesis-on-arsacs\/","title":{"rendered":"PHD student does her thesis on ARSACS"},"content":{"rendered":"Mrs. Emma Duncan a student in Professor Paul Chapple\u2019s laboratory at Queen Mary University of London, who was partly funded by the ARSACS Foundation, successfully passed her PhD examination. Mrs Duncan\u2019s thesis on 'The Neurodegenerative Disease Autosomal Recessive Spastic Ataxia of Charlevoix-Saguenay (ARSACS): Cellular Defects Due To Loss of Sacsin Function\u2019 used cells grown from skin biopsies of Dutch and British ARSACS patients as a model system \u00a0to investigate the molecular pathogenesis of the disease. The findings further implicate problems with mitochondria, which act as the cells power plant, and the cytoskeleton, which regulates cellular shape and transport.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mrs. Emma Duncan a student in Professor Paul Chapple\u2019s laboratory at Queen Mary University of London, who was partly funded by the ARSACS Foundation, successfully passed her PhD examination. Mrs Duncan\u2019s thesis on &#8216;The Neurodegenerative Disease Autosomal Recessive Spastic Ataxia of Charlevoix-Saguenay (ARSACS): Cellular Defects Due To Loss of Sacsin Function\u2019 used cells grown from [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9295,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-archives"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arsacs.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arsacs.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arsacs.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arsacs.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arsacs.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10916"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/arsacs.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24235,"href":"https:\/\/arsacs.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10916\/revisions\/24235"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arsacs.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arsacs.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arsacs.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arsacs.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}